Israeli Soldiers Abduct Sixteen Palestinians
Israeli soldiers abducted, Thursday, at least sixteen Palestinians from several parts of occupied Palestine, and injured many others, including six members of one family. The soldiers invaded Tubas city, in…
Israeli Army Abducts Three Palestinians In Bethlehem
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, three Palestinians, including two children, in the West Bank governorate of Bethlehem. The Bethlehem office…
Including Six Family Members, Army Injures Several Palestinians, Abducts One, In Tubas
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Thursday, Tubas city in northeastern West Bank, injured several Palestinians, including six family members, and abducted a young man. Media sources in Tubas said…
Soldiers Detain A Young Man, Install Roadblocks Near Jenin
Israeli soldiers detained, on Thursday at dawn, a young Palestinian man, and installed many roadblocks, in Jenin governorate, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said…
Israeli Soldiers Demolish Farmers’ Stalls Near Hebron
Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, a number of stalls of Palestinian farmers on the Hebron-Jerusalem road, near the main entrance of Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part…
Leak From Censored Israel Lobby Film Exposes Anti-Palestinian Operatives
The first leaked excerpt of Al Jazeera’s censored film on the Israel Lobby in the U.S. claims to identify the funder behind the Canary Mission, an anonymous website devoted to…
Israeli Military Reimposes Sentence on Former Prisoner from Occupied Palestine ’48
Photo: Mohammed Zayed. Via Quds News Palestinian former prisoners continue to face harsh persecution, as former prisoner Mohammed Zayed, released in the 2011 Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner exchange agreement (the so-called “Shalit deal”), became…
Over 300 Jailed Palestinian Children Did Not Go To School Today
As the school year in the occupied Palestinian territories begins, more than 300 Palestinian children imprisoned by the Israeli occupation did not go to their schools, today. Director of Palestinian…
Abbas Agrees to Demilitarized State
PA President Mahmoud Abbas told a delegation of Israeli academics that he is committed to achieving peace through a demilitarized state, and agreed that security would be maintained by police…
Over 1.3 Million Students Begin School Year in Palestine
About 1,300,000 Palestinian students, on Wednesday morning, went to their schools, throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with the start of the new school year. Some of these students…
Statistics Bureau: Almost 1.9 Million People Living in Gaza, 2/3 are Refugees
Almost 1.9 million Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip, making almost 40% of the total Palestinian population in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, and two thirds of…
Nikki Haley: Palestinian Right of Return Should be Off the Table
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley vetos an Egyptian-drafted resolution regarding recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem, during the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation…
Israeli Army Issues An Order Preventing Student From Entering College For Six Months
The Israeli army handed, Wednesday, a young Palestinian man a military order denying him access to the college where he studies, in Nablus, in northern West Bank, for six months.…
Soldiers Demolish A Slaughterhouse, A Shed And A Barn, Near Jenin
Israeli soldiers demolished, on Wednesday morning, a slaughterhouse and two sheds in Barta’a Palestinian village, isolated by the illegal Annexation Wall, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.…
Army Demolishes Print Shop In Silwan, Abduct Two Palestinians
Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, a Palestinian print shop in Ein al-Louza neighborhood in Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, and demolished a print shop, in addition to…
PPS: “Army Abducts Fourteen Palestinians In Jenin, Nablus And Hebron”
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, fourteen Palestinians, including children, from their homes, in the northern West Bank governorates of Nablus…
Army Abducts A Young Man Near Ramallah
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Beit Rima town, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and abducted a young Palestinian man from his home.…
Israeli Soldiers Injure A Wheelchair-Bound Man, And His Wife, In Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers injured, on Wednesday at dawn, a wheelchair-bound Palestinian man, and his wife, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, after storming their home, and summoned their son for…
PA Condemns Trump Decision to Strip Palestinian Refugees of Historical Rights
Following its recent decision to cut drastically more than $200 million in aid funds allocated to benefit the Palestinian citizens directly, the Trump administration continues to dismantle the United Nations…
Civil Statement: Labour Party Must Reject Biased IHRA Definition That Stifles Advocacy For Palestinian Rights
Palestinian civil society issues a statement urging the UK Labour Party and trade unions to reject IHRA’s false, anti-Palestinian definition of antisemitism which seeks to conflate antisemitism with criticism of Israel.…
VIDEO: Palestinians Assaulted as Israel Razes Lands
Five Palestinians were injured and three others were detained by Israeli forces on Tuesday, in the village of Ras Karkar in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah. Locals…
Lacking Therapeutic Milk, Children with PKU Face Fate
The acute shortage of some types of therapeutic milk, in Gaza hospitals, is leaving infants threatened by a genetic defect that is known to cause mental disability, the Palestinian Ministry…
Palestine Refugees: Beyond the Numbers
The 1948 Nakba and its ethnic cleansing that led to change in the population of Palestine and control over the land set a de facto situation imposed by the power…
UNRWA: $5.4m to be Donated by Japan
The Japanese government, by the end of this week, is due to donate 5.4 million dollars to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The funds will…
Detainees In Etzion Complain Of Dire Conditions, Skin Rash
Jackline Fararja, a lawyer with the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, said that several detainees, who are held in Etzion military base, south of Bethlehem, are imprisoned in dirty cells, and are…
PPS: “Israeli Soldiers Abduct Ten Palestinians In West Bank”
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, overnight until Tuesday at noon, at least ten Palestinians, including a father and his son, from several parts of…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians In Jenin And Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, four Palestinian in Jenin and Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank Several army jeeps invaded al-Hadaf area, and Wad Burqin, west of Jenin,…
Army Demolishes One Home, Abducts A Palestinian Near Ramallah
Israeli soldiers demolished, on Tuesday at dawn, a Palestinian home in Kobar village, northwest of Ramallah, in central West Bank, and abducted one man. Media sources in Ramallah said the…
Israeli Colonialist Settlers Attack A Home Near Nablus
A number of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers attacked, late on Monday at night, a Palestinian home in Orif village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Adel al-Amer,…
Army Injures Two Palestinians In Nablus
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday evening, the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and shot at least two young men, one seriously, during protests that took place after the soldiers…
Israeli Colonialist Settlers Occupy A Palestinian Land In Jerusalem
On Monday morning, a group of Israeli colonizers, accompanied by police officers, occupied a Palestinian land in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem. The colonizers invaded the area, accompanied…
Gaza Children Living with the Trauma of War
An Israeli air raid almost killed six-year-old Nama Abu Foul, in 2014, and she, like many of Gaza children, still deals with the physical and mental injuries suffered during wars…
Gaza Ministry of Health: No Response from Donors on Fuel
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Qedra, said that there has been no response from donors, to provide fuel for the facilities of the Ministry. The…
Western Wall to be Expanded
The Jerusalem Municipality plans to expand the Western Wall prayer space in Jerusalem, Israeli media reported on Monday. Haaretz reported, according to Ma’an, that the plan to expand the prayer…
Israeli Soldiers and Settlers Storm Al-Khader
(archive photo image) Israeli forces, on Monday, seized an agricultural shed placed on a land belonging to a Palestinian resident in the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, in occupied…
Bethlehem: Dheisheh Refugee Camp Celebrates First Cultural Festival (VIDEO)
For three days, the roofs of Bethlehem’s Dheisheh Refugee Camp is transformed. Bright lights are hung from every corner, and the roofs are filled with stalls where people from the…
Lieberman: New Israeli Missiles Can Strike Any Target in Middle East
Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman said that the Israeli army will be supplied with new high-accuracy rockets that can reach any point in the Middle East. Lieberman claimed that…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Ten Palestinians In The West Bank
Updated: The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, ten Palestinians from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, including…
Army Delivers Demolition Order Of One Home, Abducts Three Palestinians, Near Ramallah
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, Kobar village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, abducted three Palestinians, including a former political prisoner, and delivered a demolition…
One Year of Arbitrary Detention for French-Palestinian Lawyer Salah Hamouri
French-Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hamouri has been imprisoned by Israel without charge or trial for over a year. On 23 August 2017, Hamouri’s home in Kufr Aqab, Jerusalem was attacked…
Settlement Expansion to Begin in Beit Hanina
A project to construct hundreds of new illegal Israeli settlement units in the heart of the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina, in occupied East Jerusalem, was reported to commence early…
UPDATE: US to Suspend UNRWA Budget in West Bank
US President Donald Trump’s administration is to take substantial steps against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in general, and against refugees in the West Bank…
Army Orders Palestinian Family to Leave Home
Israeli occupation forces, on Sunday, ordered the family of Abu Hmeid, from al-Ama’ari refugee camp, in Ramallah, to leave their home in preparation to demolish it. Um Nasser Abu Hmeid…
Palestinian Woman And Her Daughter Denied Entry Into Al-Aqsa Mosque
The Israeli police detained, on Sunday evening, a Palestinian woman and her daughter, and handed them orders preventing them from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem. The police summoned…
PCHR: “Israeli Naval Forces Arrest 2 Fishermen”
Continue to Chase Fishermen and Deprive them of practicing their job, Israeli Naval Forces Arrest 2 Fishermen and Detain Fishing Boat Sailing Within One Nautical Mile Israeli naval forces continued…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians, Confiscate Car, In Hebron
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at night, Wad Abu Kteila area, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and abducted three Palestinians in addition to confiscating one car. Media…
Israeli Media Sources: US Plans to Reject Palestinian Right of Return
According to Israeli Hebrew-language media outlets, unnamed officials in the US administration told them that the US Presidents plans in the coming weeks to announce the rejection of the right…
Soldiers Abduct 68 Palestinian Workers, Injure One, Near Hebron
Israeli soldiers chased, Sunday, dozens of Palestinian day laborers, near Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, as they were trying to enter Jerusalem for work, and…
Israeli Navy Abducts Two Palestinian Fishermen In Northern Gaza
Israeli navy ships attacked, on Sunday morning, several fishing boats in Palestinian territorial waters, in the northern part of the besieged Gaza Strip, and abducted two fishermen. Nizar Ayyash, the…
Army Abducts Four Palestinians In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday at dawn, four young Palestinian men, from their homes in the al-‘Isawiya town, in occupied East Jerusalem. Media sources said the soldiers invaded and ransacked…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians In Hebron
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday at dawn, four young Palestinian men in Beit Ummar and Halhoul towns, near Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The soldiers…
FIFA Continues to Ignore Israel’s Very Real Violence
The world governing body of football ignores Israel’s attacks on Palestinian athletes while it sanctions the President of the Palestinian Football Association. Stephanie Adam of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and…
Extremist Settlers Attack West Bank Palestinian Commuters
Israeli settlers attacked, late Friday night, the cars of Palestinians traveling on roads in the northern West Bank, causing damage but no injuries, according to local WAFA sources. Settlers reportedly…
PLO Official Warns of Arming Israeli Settlers
Tayseer Khaled, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), warned of the reduced terms for Israeli settlers to carry weapons, which was recently approved by the…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Four Waqf Employees In Al-Aqsa Mosque
Israeli soldiers abducted, Saturday, four Palestinians who work for the Al-Aqsa Reconstruction Committee of the Islamic Waqf and Endowment Department in occupied Jerusalem. The four were taken prisoner while performing…
Trump Cuts $200 Million In Aid To Palestinians
The U.S. Administration of Donald Trump said it decided to cut $200 Million of the aid budget to the Palestinians, which was approved earlier this year. Israeli daily Haaretz has…
Army Injures Eight Palestinians, One International Peace Activist, In Kufur Qaddoum
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent procession against the Annexation Wall and Colonies, in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank,…
Israeli Colonialists Cut 30 Olive Trees Near Nablus
A number of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers invaded, Friday, a Palestinian olive orchard in the as-Sawiya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and cut 30 olive…
PCHR: Israeli Forces Attack Non-Violent Protest in Gaza, Wounding 89 Civilians
On Friday, 24 August 2018, using excessive lethal force against the peaceful protesters in eastern Gaza Strip for the 22nd Friday in a row, Israeli forces wounded 89 civilians, including 17…
Israeli Soldiers Adduct Two Palestinians Near Nablus And Jenin
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at night, two young Palestinian men near Jenin and Nablus, in the northern parts of the occupied West Bank. The soldiers invaded Zabbouba village, west…
Barghouti: “SodaStream is Still Subject to Boycott”
Earlier this week, PepsiCo announced that it signed an agreement to buy SodaStream, a producer of home-carbonation machines. SodaStream has faced global boycotts because of its complicity in Israel’s grave violations of…
UNRWA Confronts Deficit of $270 Million
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) currently faces a budget deficit of $270 million, which could cause serious consequences for the humanitarian situation in the…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian In Hebron
Israeli soldiers abducted, Thursday, a Palestinian man from Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers invaded…
Erekat: “Israel’s Illegal Expansion Of Colonies, Direct Outcome of American Greed”
Dr. Saeb Erekat, a member of the Executive Committee of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) strongly denounced Israel’s approval of hundreds of new units in its illegal colonies in the occupied…
Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian In Nablus
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, a young Palestinian man in the al-Mughayyir village, northeast of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The soldiers also attempted to abduct…
Israeli Colonialist Settlers Injure Two Palestinians Near Nablus
Medical sources have reported that two Palestinians were injured, on Thursday at dawn, after being attacked by illegal Israeli colonialist settlers near Nablus, in northern West Bank. The sources said…
Israeli Colonialist Settlers Attack Homes And Cars Near Nablus
A group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonialist settlers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the village of Orif, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and attacked homes and…
382 New Homes in Illegal West Bank Settlements Approved
Israeli occupation authorities have agreed to build hundreds of units in West Bank settlements, as well as to legitimize two new settlement outposts, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Israeli occupation…
Lana Del Rey Unsympathetic to Boycott Movement
American singer and songwriter, Lana Del Rey, received criticism worldwide following an announcement that she will be performing at the Meteor Festival in Tel Aviv, next month. Despite pro-Palestinian groups’…
Statement from Norwegian ISM Volunteer Shot by Israeli Soldier in Kafr Qaddoum (VIDEO)
08/18/18 | International Solidarity Movement | Ramallah Team A description of the events of Saturday, 18th of August, from the Norwegian ISM volunteer targeted and shot by a soldier in Kafr…
Seizure of Bethlehem District Farmlands Approved by Israel
Israeli authorities, on Wednesday, decided to seize about 100 dunams (24.7 acres) of agricultural land belonging to the Palestinian village of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, said a local activist. Hassan…
Erekat in Response to Trump: There is No Price for Jerusalem
Secretary of the Executive Committee for Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Saeb Erekat, responded to statements by US President Donald Trump and his National Security Advisor, John Bolton, about the…
Israel Refuses To Grant Medical Treatment For Gaza Patients Related To Hamas Members
The Israeli government has informed the High Court of its decision refusing to allow medical treatment for Gaza patients, even those who require life-saving intervention, “if they are related to…
Detained Journalist Released Under Strict Conditions
The Israeli Authorities released, on Tuesday evening, a Palestinian journalist from the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after forcing him to pay a fine, in addition to preventing him…
More Than Half the Invited Speakers Withdraw From Scientific Workshop at Israeli Settlement University
August 20, 2018 / By Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) / Six of the eleven invited speakers have confirmed their withdrawal from a physics workshop at Ariel University,…
Israeli Government: Knesset Can Make Laws Everywhere in the World, Violate Sovereignty of Foreign States
The Israeli government has declared that “the Knesset [is permitted] to legislate laws everywhere in the world” and that it is authorized “to violate the sovereignty of foreign countries via…
UN: Funds Urgently Needed for Life-saving Services in Gaza
The Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Jamie McGoldrick, on Tuesday, called on the donor community to immediately fund the procurement of emergency fuel to prevent essential services in…
Israel To Build 650 New Units In Beit El Colony
The Israeli government and the “Construction and Planning Committee” of the Civil Administration office, have approved additional 650 new units in Beit El illegal colony, near Ramallah, in central West…
Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian In Northern Gaza
Israeli soldiers killed, on Monday morning, a young Palestinian man near the parameter fence, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said its opened fire at…
VIDEO: Palestinian Farmers Assaulted in East Jerusalem
Israeli municipality staff have assaulted Palestinian farmers and vendors in the streets of occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, a day before the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Locals said, according…
UK Ethnic Groups Call Out Attempts to Silence Discourse on Palestine
A total of 84 British black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) organizations came out strong, last week, on attempts in the United Kingdom to silence discourse on Palestine, particularly those…
PPS: “Israeli Soldiers Abduct 14 Palestinians In The West Bank”
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, fourteen Palestinians, including a former political prisoner who was imprisoned for 15 years, in several…
Israeli Soldiers Remove A Tent, Assault A Palestinian, Near Hebron
Israeli soldiers, accompanied by a number of illegal colonialist settlers, invaded a Palestinian land, Monday, removed a tent and assaulted a man, in Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, in…
Israel Approves Dozens Of Units In Illegal Colony Near Bethlehem
The Israeli authorities approved the construction of 106 new units in the illegal Efrat colony, built on private Palestinian lands between Artas village and the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem,…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Seven Palestinians In The West Bank
Israeli Soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, at least seven Palestinians from their homes, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported. The PPS said that…
Detainee Receives An Administrative Detention Order For 6 Months After Serving A 16-Month Prison Term
On Sunday, the Israeli Authorities informed detainee Nasser Abu Khdeir, from Shu’fat town, in occupied East Jerusalem, that he will be held under Administrative Detention for six months, instead of…
Imprisoned Palestinian Journalist Reiterates Call for Solidarity
Imprisoned Palestinian journalist and director of Al-Quds TV Alaa Rimawi said on Sunday, 19 August that the arrests carried out by Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian media and journalists are part of…
UN Protection Proposals Rejected by Israel
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, condemned the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ report on improving Palestinian protection in the occupied territories. Danny Danon spoke on behalf of Israel…
Erez Crossing Closed by Israeli Authorities
Israeli occupation authorities informed the Palestinian side of closing Erez border crossing, in the Gaza Strip, on Sunday, to allow the entry of humanitarian cases only. Director of Public Relations…
Tralee, Ireland to Twin with Beit Sahour
A town in Ireland has completed the first step towards twinning with Beit Sahour, in the Bethlehem district of the occupied West Bank. Kerry County Council has passed unopposed a…
Tension Mounts Over Truce Deal between Israel and Hamas: Report
Disagreements within the Netanyahu administration have increased tensions between Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Education Minister Naftali Bennett, Israeli media reports. Yedioth Ahronoth daily writes, according to the PNN,…
Two Detainees Continue Hunger Strike
Two Palestinian detainees are ongoing with open-ended hunger strikes they started eight days ago, protesting being held under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society…
Israeli Colonizers Puncture Tires, Write Racist Graffiti, In Jerusalem
Israeli colonizers infiltrated, on Sunday at dawn, Habayel al-Arab neighborhood of the al-‘Isawiya town, in occupied Jerusalem, wrote racist graffiti and punctured the tires of more than 15 Palestinian cars,…
Israeli Colonizers Injure Four Palestinians Near Nablus
A number of Israeli colonizers from Yitzhar colony, illegally built on Palestinian lands south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, hurled stones at several Palestinian cars, wounding four…
Army Invades Hebron, Abducts A Palestinian Near Nablus
Israeli soldiers invaded, Sunday, Hebron city and Ethna town, west of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and searched many homes. on Saturday at night, the…
Israeli Colonists Uproot 70 Olive Saplings Near Ramallah
Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers uprooted, Saturday, dozens of Palestinian olive saplings, and cut trees, in Ras Karkar village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The WAFA Palestinian…
Israel Takes Out ‘BDS Insurance’ to Protect Eurovision
There’s perhaps no greater barometer to measure the lengths to which Israel will go to defame, attack and sabotage the global movement for Palestinian rights than its attitude towards BDS.…
Gutteres Suggests Armed UN Presence to Insure Palestinian Protection
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, presented four proposals, this Friday, aimed at protecting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and in the besieged Gaza Strip, including the deployment of…
Israeli Police Ban Palestinians from Al-Aqsa Mosque (VIDEO)
Baraa’ al-Ghazzawi is arrested at al-Aqsa Mosque, August 12, 2018. Photo credit: Wadi Hilweh Information Center. POSTED BY: AHMAD JARADAT AUGUST 17, 2018 Worshippers report being arrested as they exit the holy…
Norwegian Activist Shot as Israeli Forces Subdue Protest East of Qalqilia
A Norwegian activist, Saturday, was shot and injured with a rubber-coated steel bullet as Israeli forces quelled the weekly and peaceful anti-settlement demonstration in the village of Kufr Qaddoum, to…